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Stone-Watchers
Petrified Philosophers
Petrified Philosophers
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a species for a new planet.
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- Name: Stone-Watchers
- Designation: Sentient
- Origins: The Void Terminal
- Average Lifespan: 400-600 Galactic Standard Years
- Estimated Population: Rare
- Description: Stone-like bipeds composed of petrified organic material. They develop via crystal growths on their bodies, which form into elaborate patterns and are prone to collecting moss.
- Breathes: Type 2 Atmosphere.
- Average Height of Adults: 3.04 Meters
- Average Length of Adults: 1 Meter
- Skin color: Grey
- Hair color: N/A
- Distinctions: Large, stone-like figured that grow from an organic crystaline structures. They have no gender and reproduce asexually via crystal growths on their body that in time develop into new Stone-Watchers, which are capable of complex thought upon breaking off from their parent.
- Races: N/A
- Force Sensitivity: Rare
- Solid, stone like body makes them resiliant to most forms of standard attack.
- Capable of photosythesis to maintain energy.
- Great wisdom and long lifespans.
- Low to minimal mobility due to high energy costs.
- Extremely passive.
- Highly spiritual, often making there concern with the physical world greatly decreased.
- Flamable
- Diet: Sunlight (Photosythesis)
- Communication: Stone-Watchers can vibrate the organic crystals in their body to create and sythmesize speech.
- Technology level: Primitive
- Religion/Beliefs: Standard spiritualism, with a higher degree of value in further though and philosophy, but nothing organized.
- General behavior: The Watchers are simple beings. They move little at all and spend their lives collecting energy from the sun and growing untill they can produce asexually, a proccess that occurs when a crystaline growth on the adult breaks off and becomes a new entity. They spend their lives sitting in groups talking, discussing the deeper implications of existance and the cosmos. All of their time is dedicated to philosophy, as the Stone-Watchers have nothing better to do with their time as they must spend it not-moving and photosythesizing.
A species changed by the Rakata thousands of years ago. Once the Stone-watchers, or "Watchers" for short, were a race of gelatinous creatures with an amorphous form, one which was young in the development of sentient thought. A sub-sect of these beings would attract the attention of scientists from the Infinite Empire, who would take them from their marshy homeworld and place them on the dry, toxic Void Terminal, where they would quickly be forgotten following the sudden collapse of the empire. Here, to retain moisture, the Watchers would evolve into a golem-like state, becoming a race of sedentary stone people. They cluster into colonies, spending their days sitting around and absorbing energy from the sun to sustain themselves. Extra conserved energy forms crystals on their rugged forms that, if large enough, will eventually break off to form new Watchers. With nothing to do but sit around and conserve their energy, the Watchers became a band of mystics, known for sitting in circles motionless as they discussed the deeper meanings of life and the cosmos.
